7 Feb 2014
Facebook experienced an intermittent outage for users
Facebook, the most popular social media platform in the world, gave some of their users an unexpected surprise on February 7 2014, starting at around 13:46. Upon logging into their account, many were met with an error message from the website that said:
“Sorry something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.”
An update was posted on Facebook developers’ site at 13:53:
“Platform API errors and increased latency
We are currently experiencing high API response times and errors across multiple endpoints. While this issue is ongoing you may see slow responses to your API calls or errors with a HTTP status code of 500-503
This issue is being actively worked on and we expect it to be resolved shortly”
The issue was resolved at 14:40.
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Date |
Service |
Duration |
Critical Data Lost |
|
2014-2-7 |
|
54 minutes |
no |
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